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...cuff substitutions for formal speeches, Kennedy sometimes raced too briskly to the point; often he was guilty of oversimplification. But in happier moments (notably in press conferences and informal question-and-answer sessions), he impressed the experts with his detailed knowledge, eloquence and deft uptake. As the campaign surged into high gear, Kennedy left a jet stream of issues behind him (see box), along with the jagged seismograph of his public image. Getting into the swing of it, he proved that he can be as tough, skillful and attractive as any other candidate currently on the stump-and worthy...
...into the East River. An occasional commuter was heard to grumble: "Maybe they'll find out the Long Island Railroad isn't necessary, and it'll just disappear.'' But the majority were clearly ready and eager to ride the rails again. None will be happier than Commuter Thomas M. Goodfellow, president of the railroad. "Driving to work from my home in Garden City has gotten to be a damnable nuisance," he says. "When we settle the strike, I'm going to be the first commuter on the first train...
Biographer Hesketh Pearson (Dizzy, Oscar Wilde) argues persuasively for the opposite view. The Charles he describes in a witty and partisan book was a tall, swarthy man who played a powerful game of tennis, made handsome settlements on his numerous bastards, encouraged science and literature, and left England a happier and more prosperous nation than he found it. Amid religious fanaticism, he remained tolerant and humane, and his chief fault was that he forgave anybody anything. He gained his political ends by letting himself be persuaded to do what he wished. "He had a sense of reality shared...
...time it takes to produce a baby hippopotamus, the U.S. brings forth a President. From the first, frosty preprimary campaigning in February until the last hurrah in November, the nation becomes increasingly absorbed with its own inner stirrings, increasingly detached from the affairs of the outside world. In happier times, the U.S. could afford its quadrennial ''year of paralysis" while an indulgent world stood by until everything was once more in order in Washington. But in the presidential-election year of 1960-the year of the Communists' world propaganda push-the flaws of the long campaign...
Barry has not been able to get a TV job since a congressional committee sniffed at his quiz shows, found the smell was far from rosy. But in happier days, when he was earning as much as $200,000 a year and had sold his shows to NBC for $1,000,000, he invested $50,000 in a small Manhattan chemical firm, the Fragrance Process Co. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Neuwald, 64, a Hungarian-born chemist who used Barry's money to perfect a pellet to impregnate plastics with hundreds of different fragrances...